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...people of Suriel, a small village in central Dominican Republic, don’t have indoor plumbing. Seeking water, they walk down the only road to an aqueduct along the village’s outskirts that’s available for use only five and a half hours every other...
...DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ENGINEERING...
...Clintons spent Easter 2007 at Oscar de la Renta's resort in the Dominican Republic...
...That effort, which includes Ecuador and France (the most famous hostage is former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, a dual Colombian-French citizen), has likely been brought to a halt by last weekend's events. This Friday, Chavez, Uribe and Correa are set to attend a summit in the Dominican Republic for the Grupo de Rio - a group of Latin American nations formed in the 1980s to help resolve the bloody Central American conflicts of that decade. Insulza and the OAS can only hope the gathering will remind this decade's adversaries of the cost of conflict in their region...
...result is a warm, upbeat slice of street life set in the largely Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights. Miranda, the narrator, plays the proprietor of a bodega in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, introducing and interacting with a dozen characters, from the college girl who disappoints her parents by dropping out of Stanford to the aging neighborhood matriarch who wins $96,000 after buying a lottery ticket. Miranda's songs glide effortlessly between mellow hip-hop, salsa dance numbers and Latin-flavored arias that express the frustrations, dreams and community pride in Miranda's family-friendly world...